About Us MuZeneers!
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Beth Fairservis, MPC is a Buddhist Pastoral Counselor, performance artist, and co-founder of MuZen Theater (www.bethfairservis.com) Beth has been practicing and teaching puppet making and theater arts for over 30 years. She began her theater career at age four in a Sharon Playhouse Production of Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl and performed in numerous productions of the East West Fusion Theater, Sharon, Connecticut, and at Lincoln Center Outdoors. At twelve she played the lead in The Innocence at SRO Theater. She has studied theater and improvisation with Meredith Monk, Rachel Rosenthal, Ricardo Puccetti, Double Edge Theater and SandGlass Puppet Theater. For the past 12 years she has produced large scale, activist puppetry events including the annual Celebration of Interdependence, and the Hungry Ghost Bread Parade in downtown Northampton, Mass. She earned a Masters in Buddhist Pastoral Counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation and maintains an active counseling practice in Western Mass.
Cellist/Composer Stephen Katz (www.stephenkatzmusic.com) has performed his compositions at Carnegie Recital Hall and toured internationally. He has been featured on American Public Media national broadcasts of Performance Today with the groundbreaking approach to strumming the cello he calls Flying Pizzicato. Stephen has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council/Northampton Arts Council and has a life-long relationship with the Dance world as an improviser and composer. He has received the Jury Prize Gold Medal for Best Impact of Music in a Documentary at the Park City Film Music Festival and scored Two Square Miles, a film about Hudson, NY, which has been broadcast nationally on PBS/Independent Lens. A native of San Francisco, Stephen received a Master of Music degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He, Beth and their son and dog live in Haydenville, Mass. |
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